How Microbeads Can Harm An Entire Food Web
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Encouraged by advertisements promising clear pores and "no more blackheads," many of us have stocked up on beauty products that will, we hope, help us scrub our way to perfect skin. From our T-zones t...
o our toes, we look to cleansers and scrubs to slough off a long day and leave us glowing. But many of these popular products contain microbeads, aka teeny-tiny balls of plastic. In fact, as of 2009, the average consumer is likely to be a daily user of microbead-containing products.
Why should anyone care? Turns out, these tiny scrubbers might make us feel fresh and clean, but they’re doing serious damage to the environment and could potentially hurt our health.
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